No more excuses
I've been working out on and off here and generally been having a difficult time breathing since I moved up about 5,280 ft from NYC to Denver. I've had about three months to acclimate, I've managed to acquire a pull-up bar (thanks lab!) a bench w/ dumbbells (thanks roommate!) and a barbell with some weights ($20 at a garage sale!). I've got my rings, my jump rope, and my Tabata timer. There really aren't anymore excuses to keep me from working out anymore.
I did try a few things the last months to varying degrees of success. I won't bore you with too many of the details, but I tried to do this Tabata workout two weeks after moving here and almost killed myself. I definitely went into shock, and didn't fully recover my breathing ability until two and a half hours later.
So, enough of the past, here's what I did today:
warm-up: 3 rounds x 10 of
pull-ups
push-ups
sit-ups
squats
Then 8x5 OHS, all at ~58 lbs
My bar is pretty lights (~5 lbs? that's what I'm guessing) and my weights are in kg so the lb conversion is a little funky. This was enough to get my heart rate up a little and get me out of breath, but it wasn't too bad at all. I think my roommate is going running later, so maybe I'll join him. Anyway, I just wanted to say hello again to everyone!
7 comments:
Yo Scott!!! Good to see you are alive and somewhat adjusted to the altitude.
I gotta say though man, after all our experience with Tabata intervals, you should have known better than to try them without any conditioning...
Heh, yeah I know. What can I say, it seemed like a good idea at the time...
What is going on. Nobody is posting for days, and then all of a sudden, there are three posts (with pictures!).
Hey Scott, I can't quite understand the link that describes the Tabata intervals you were doing. Would you mind explaining?
Welcome back Scottle! Once you've adapted to the higher altitude, you'll be killing us when you come back to the flatlands...
G, I'll fill in the explanation for Scott:
A typical set of Tabata intervals consists of 8 rounds on a single exercise where each round consists of 20 seconds of maximal intensity of the exercise, followed by 10 seconds of rest. The 8 rounds follow each other without rest.
There are maniacal variants that consist of stringing together multiple Tabata intervals together using different exercises. For example, the link Scott posted consists of 4 sets of Tabata intervals, for a total of 32 intervals. Each of the exercises is done sequentially, and there is no pause between sets of Tabata intervals. So, you do 8 rounds of 20 seconds of pull-ups followed by 10 seconds rest; when 8 rounds are finished, you immediately start 8 rounds of push-ups and so on.
Make sense? If you pick the exercises correctly, you will see Jesus at the end.
Holly crap, what you wrote makes sense, but doing it doesn't! This seems insane. I bet you its not Jesus I would see after this though.
Tabata intervals are really their own special type of pain. Conditioning and breathing aside, the burn you get in your legs after doing Tabata sprints or stationary bike is really something quite special.
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